When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.